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B. J. 0 E. CENTER FASTENING I R REASTSTRAPS. No. 546,300. Patentedisept.17, 1895.

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ERASTUS J. CLARK, OF ENID, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.

CENTER FASTENING FOR BREAST-STRAPS.

E EECIFIGATTION forming part of Letters Patent No. 546,300, datedSeptember 17, 1895.

Application filedlTuly 13,1895. Serial No. 555,861. (No modell) To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERASTUS J. CLARK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Enid, in the county of Garfield and Territory of Oklahoma,have invented a new and useful Center Fastening for Breast-Straps, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in breast strap fasteners, andhas for its object to replace the ordinary central slide and end snapapplied to breast-straps by a simple fastening device which may bemanufactured at slight cost, which may be manipulated with ease, andwhich will be found convenient and reliable in practice.

It has heretofore been customary to make a breaststrap in one piece andto secure one end thereof through one of the hame-rings and provide theopposite end of the strap with a snap-hook adapted to fasten into theother hame-ring after having been passed through a ring at one end ofthe neck-yoke, the latter hanging in the sag of such strap or restingupon the usual iron slide arranged centrally of said strap. Thisinvention contemplates securing the opposite ends of the breaststrappermanently to the harnerings and dividing said strap centrally orthereabout, and applying to the adjacent ends of the strap thus divideda novel construction of coupling or fastening device which shall at oneand the same time serve to secure such strap ends together and take theplace of the usual slide for receiving the wear of and supporting thering at the end of the neck-yoke.

To the above end the invention consists in an improved breast-st rapfastener embodying certain novel features and details of constructionand arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated inthe drawings, and finally pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section throughan improved fastener constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig.2 is a bottom perspective view of one of the fastener members. Fig. 3 isa top perspective view of the other member.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in theseveral figures of the drawings.

The improved fastener contemplated in this invention is composed of twomembers 1 and 2, of which 1 is the main an 2 the hook member. The member1 is preferably made considerably larger than the member 2 and is formedin its outer surface with a recess or depression 3 of a size and shapecorresponding to and adapted to receive the hook member2 in the mannershown, whereby when the two members are brought together and united theywill present the appearence of but a single piece.

The member 1 in that end which is not cut away or recessed to receivethe hoop member is formed with a segmental pocket or recess 4, whichopens downwardly and is adapted to receive the hook of the member 2.

The member 1 is provided at its opposite end and upon its lower sidewith an integrallyformed lug 5, in which is cut a notch 6, the mouth orneck of which is reduced by a project-ing lip 7, as shown, the purposeof which will hereinafter appear. The hook member is provided at one endwith an integrallyformed hook S, which is adapted to be inserted in thesegmental pocket or recess 4 of the member 1 and to engage therein withthe transverse pin 9 of a strap-loop 10, as illustrated in the sectionalView. Atits opposite end the hook member 2 is provided with a notch orrecess 11, adapted to receive the downwardly -projecting lug 5. Thetransverse pin or shaft of a second strap-loop12 also crosses and lieswithin said notch or recess, and is formed therein with a cam oreccentric 13, which is adapted when the straploop 12 is thrown outwardor at right angles to the hook member to enter and pass through themouth or neck of the notch or slot 6 in the lug 5 of the member 1, andwhich is further adapted. when the strap-loop 12 is vibrated into theposition shown in Fig. 1 to enter the widened portion of the notch orslot 6 and rest behind or inside of the projecting lip 7, therebylocking the two members of the device together and effectuallypreventing their separation except when the strap-loop 12 is vibratedoutwardly and downwardly at right angles to the member in which it isjournaled. The strap-loops 10 and 12 are pivotally connected with andextended from the opposite ends of the fastener and too The devicecomprises but the two members,

described, has no frail or delicate parts to become broken or get out oforder, and is therefore very durable and will be found of greatconvenience in practice.

The device also possesses the advantage of being perfectly safe, therebeing little or no chance of the members becoming separated except whenmanipulated by the attendant.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desiredto be secured by Letters Patent, is

The herein described breast-strap fastener comprising two members, oneof which is formed with a segmental pocket or recess for the receptionof the hook on the other member, and also provided with a lug having anangular notch or slot formed therein, a pin extending transverselyacross said pocket or recess, a hook on the other member for ena im saidin a revoluble in or shaft carried by said other member and providedwith r a cam or eccentric for engaging the angular notch or slotreferred to, and means for opcrating said pin or shaft, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affix mysignature in the presence of two witnesses.

ERASTUS J. CLARK. Witnesses:

S. R. MARSHALL, W. S. H ERING.

